Our President doesn't miss a beat. Listening to the radio at work, I
heard the news about a six-year-old shooting a classmate and killing her
in Michigan. President Bill Clinton was already on the news issuing a
statement about the need for more gun control.

I had put off writing this column until now, but when I saw an Associated
Press article in my Sunday paper that Clinton was still exploiting this
tragedy to push his agenda, I had to weigh in on the matter.

The first thing I heard about the shooting was Bill Clinton on the air
pushing for gun control. He doesn't miss a beat, does he? Rush Limbaugh
made the point on March 13 that Bill Clinton gets to the scene of school
shootings faster than the ambulance does. He's not that far off.

Does the moral bankruptcy of our President know no bounds? Is there no
crime to tragic, no shooting too gruesome for Clinton to exploit for political
purposes? Almost a year later, he's still milking Columbine to get political
points. Of course, this is the same President who ordered the bombing
of a "chemical weapons plant" in Sudan on extremely poor data,
pushing the bombing up because he needed to get Monica Lewinsky off the
front page.

It appears Clinton has embarrassed himself this time. The six-year-old
shooter lived in a crack house where he found his uncle's loaded gun under
some blankets. His mother abandoned him and his father was in jail. If
anyone thinks the residents of a crack house are going to care about new
gun control laws, I've got some ocean front property in Arizona I would
love to sell you.

National Rifle Association President Wayne LaPierre opined on March 12
that Clinton is willing to accept a certain level of violence because
it fits his political agenda. Sadly, LaPierre is right. This President
has gotten more mileage out of tragedies than out of anything else during
his shameful time in office.

The existing gun laws did not prevent Columbine, and they would not have
prevented this tragedy. Clinton knows this. The National Rifle Association
is doing exactly what it should in responding to Clinton. In recent TV
commercials, they point out what Clinton is saying is false, and he knows
he's lying.

If the NRA or the Republicans won't say it outright, I will. President
William Jefferson Clinton is a liar. He knows gun control doesn't work.
He just wants to milk the issue to score political points, hovering like
a vulture over the victims of these tragedies.

But the NRA is playing a dangerous game by challenging Clinton to enforce
existing gun laws. As Gun Owners of America pointed out, the gun laws
on the books are already too much of an infringement of our Constitutional
rights. We do not need to enforce unconstitutional laws. Clinton responded
to the NRA and Republican critics by hiring hundreds of new ATF agents,
shoring up the agency responsible for Waco.

In an election year, the GOP needs to be aggressive in fighting the gun-grabbers.
It's time to roll back the unconstitutional infringements on the Second
Amendment that are already on the books. And it's also time to stop playing
nice and call a spade a spade. If Clinton or Gore is lying, call them
on it, and don't back down. And if telling the truth is derided as "negative
campaigning", so be it. We've been too nice for too long as we watch
our freedom disappear.